Dancer...Simple(3pm)

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💖 Dancer::Template::Simple(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, so this is <italic>User Contributed Perl Documentation</italic> — the little corner of the man pages where the people, not the core team, drop their lore. And today's main character? Dancer::Template::Simple. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Dancer::Template::Simple — a pure Perl 5 template engine for Dancer. no C, no drama, just vibes and Perl. 💅

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 1.3522 — that's the one, fr fr.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this template engine is the default one that ships with the Dancer micro framework. It's the one you get handed when you don't ask for anything else. 🫶

Here's the tea though: it's fine for development purposes, like genuinely fine, but it is not a powerful one. It's written in pure Perl and has no C bindings to accelerate the template processing. So it's giving "does the job" and not "does the job at Mach 3". 😭

⚠️ real talk bestie ⚠️ If you want to power an application with Dancer in a production environment, it's strongly advised to switch to Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit. Like, strongly. Don't fight this one. 🏃‍♀️💨

🌈 SYNTAX 🌈

Okay so the cute part: a template written for Dancer::Template::Simple should be working just fine with Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit. They're compatible like that, iykyk. 🥰

But — and this is the important bit — the opposite is not true though. TemplateToolkit templates do not automatically play nice here. One-way street, no cap. 🚧

🍓 variables

To interpolate a variable in the template, use the following syntax:

<% var1 %>

If 'var1' exists in the tokens hash given, its value will be written there. That's it. That's the whole trick. slay. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • Dancer
  • Dancer::Template

go read those too, bestie, they're the whole friend group. 💜

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This module has been written by Alexis Sukrieh. 🫡

💜 LICENSE 💜

This module is free software and is released under the same terms as Perl itself. free as in, go wild, but respectfully. 🌸

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Dancer Core Developers — the collective, the council, the it-girls of the Dancer ecosystem. 👑

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh. 🩷

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. periodt. 💖

and that's a wrap on the Dancer...Simple(3pm) page, generated with perl v5.40.1 on 2026-05-05 🦋 — thanks for reading, ily, go template responsibly bestie 💖✨🎀

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